[0.9.7C] - No rams / no catapults despite highest raider setting & odd trader prices

Farthest Frontier Bug Reporting
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Hi Crate team,

With my newest settlement I encounter following issues:

  1. I have reached a population of about 1’700 people. My settings are the same as for Vanquisher, just with a randomly generated map. So far, in all years, only one ram has attacked my village. I received a warning that “new previously unknown soldiers” are preparing to attack the village but I only get attacked by the basic raider guys. I’ve never even been attacked with catapults. In earlier games I was repeatedly attacked by rams and catapults with the same settings. Interestingly also on my previous settlement which I stopped at about 2’300 people I was only attacked once with catapults… but at that time by like 6 of them. Again, with the same highest difficulty for raiders. It feels like something is stuck with my raiders.

  2. Trader prices: very often, traders allow me to sell goods at a higher price than I need to pay for the same good to repurchase them. As such, with a few clicks you can deplete all the money of that trader. I encountered these on several products including flax and herbs.

Not sure whether it helps, but I uploaded the save & map file as mentioned in other posts. The save is at the time I encountered one of these trader price issues.

  1. I also have frequent issues with the paper producer next to the trading posts. It always stops working despite having sufficient raw materials. I relocated the one with 8 workers once and all workers started to be productive. Upon the reload of the shared save, they stopped again and are mostly idle despite that all raw materials are there. Edit: Regarding this point, it appears to switch to on/off randomly, or at least I don’t see what causes almost all of the workforce of the paper buildings stop working. I thought it might be the full stapling placed but also building several of them didn’t make the paper producers work most of the time.
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  1. I have a theory regarding this: what month are your attacks coming in? The vertical lines on the calendar indicate months, are you being attacked in the 3rd “box” of the year, or in later ones?

  2. That sounds like you have production limits set up for paper?

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Thank you.

Regarding 1: The save is now in about year 60 but I don’t see a strong pattern. I would say rather early in the year. What I however notice with the larger attacks that I see first 2 rader flags, then a moment later I receive up to 6 raider flags. Some attack groups are very small.

Regarding the paper: no, I don’t use any production limits. I thought it’s the limit of the stapling places but building many more of them didn’t fix it. I’m a bit short on laborers as I had about 250 deaths from a pox disease but I thought that the workers of the paper building will collect the raw material. Maybe this is however somehow linked to the laborers.

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Update with 0.9.7D:

  1. Finally a real army attacked after the update - with horsemen, rams and heavily amored guys. Great! Seems to be gone now in year 62 and with almost 2.2k population. Whatever caused the raider attacks to be stuck was unstuck… :slight_smile:

  2. Trader prices: seems fixed but I received following visual error with the trader Massuke when trading flax. The price was shown as 1 for buy and 2 for sale, but when clicking on the actual buy or sell button it was both for a price of 2. So the bug itself was fixed but it appears that in some instances the wrong price was shown. I only noticed it once.